Bücher von Bill Noel

Welcome to another collection of three novels from the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel, with SEA FPG cowritten by award-winning Angelica Cruz.TIPPING POINTA peaceful kayak trip through the marsh suddenly turns terrifying for Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler when a single-engine airplane plummets toward their watercraft. After coming inches from certain death, the kayakers' heroic efforts save two of the plane's occupants but failed to save the other two passengers. Learning the pilot had been poisoned and three of the plane's passengers live on Folly Beach, Chris and Charles decide it's up to the two retirees to catch the killer.Chris and his cast of quirky characters are challenged to solve a crime before lives are lost, possibly their own.SEA FOGcoauthored with Angelica CruzHalloween is traditionally filled with ghosts, goblins, and ghouls but this year the holiday brings something more sinister to Folly Beach. The popular fall holiday has never been a favorite of retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum but that didn't stop his friend Charles Fowler from convincing him to tour a haunted house. In addition to being faced with the scary scenes that appear in most haunted houses, they stumble across a dead body.Stir into the cauldron a Wiccan family, a Christian minister, an egotistical dentist, a ghost-hunting couple, and a dog the size of a Fiat and you have the makings of a mystery that Chris and Charles must solve before their bodies are added into the haunted house.MOSQUITO BEACHAn early-morning phone call from a friend asking Chris Landrum if he'd heard anything about a skeleton discovered on Mosquito Beach, an African American enclave fewer than a handful of miles from Chris's home on Folly Beach, soon embroils Chris and a few of his friends into trying to solve a mystery dating back sixty plus years. Chris and his friend Charles's quest for answers takes on life or death proportions when two more of Chris's acquaintances are killed and his friend Al Washington is next in the killer's sights.A FOLLY BEACH MYSTERY COLLECTION IVAuthor BiosBill Noel is the best-selling author of twenty-four novels in the popular Folly Beach Mystery series. The award-winning novelist is also a fine arts photographer and lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Susan, and his off-kilter imagination.Angelica Cruz is the award-winning coauthor of Sea Fog: A Folly Beach Halloween Mystery and Pretty Paper: A Folly Beach Christmas Mystery. Ms. Cruz lives near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with her husband Hector, two dogs, a bird, two cats, and four chickens.

There were numerous better ways for retiree Chris Landrum to begin his day than to listen to a traumatized friend Virgil DeBonnet telling him how he found a body with a knife sticking out his back and floating in a small boat less than a half mile from Chris's cottage. Landrum's day on Folly Beach, the small barrier island in the shadows of Charleston, South Carolina, turns even darker when Virgil convinces him and his best friend and self-anointed private detective Charles Fowler that it was up to them to find the person who ended the man's life.The three friends twist, turn, and stumble their way among an increasing number of suspects including a former professional baseball player, the dead man's alleged partner in a con game, a wealthy businessman who'd fallen for the con, and more. The amateur detectives think they have the murder solved until their prime suspect becomes the second victim of the knife wielding killer. Unless they uncover the truth, and do it quickly, one of them will be the next murder victim.

Three more novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. NO JOKEFour aging comedians deliver anything but laughs when they descend upon Folly Beach, a small, laid-back barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina. Chris Landrum''s introduction to the newcomers is when he averts disaster by escorting one of them out of the center of Folly''s busiest street, a task made even more difficult since the jokester, wearing a long, wool coat over red swim trunks, and black patent leather shoes, is flailing a fishing rod at anything that moves, be it vehicle or human.RELICOn an early-morning walk through the nature preserve on the east end of Folly Beach on their way to photograph the iconic Morris Island Lighthouse, Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler''s peaceful morning takes an abrupt turn. They encounter a woman who tells them she got separated from her husband during a storm, then claims they''d been relic hunting. Her husband can''t verify what he and his wife were doing. He''s dead-murdered.With the horrific death on everyone''s mind, Theo Stoll, another of Chris''s friends learns his recently widowed daughter-in-law is moving to Folly saying she wants to be near her only living relative. But, what does the woman Theo has never met really want? A family connection or to con the wealthy retiree.Lies, contradictions, stories of ghosts, pirates, Civil War relics, and buried treasure, combine with no shortage of murder suspects to challenge Chris and his friends to solve the crime that''s stumped the police. Not only solve it but solve it before more are killed.FAITHChristmas on South Carolina''s Folly Beach is a time for festivities, families, friendship, fellowship, and reflection. When a fire ruled intentionally set leaves residents of five apartments homeless days before the holiday, retired bureaucrat Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler take it upon themselves to not only make sure the displaced residents have somewhere to live but are determined to learn who was responsible for the massive conflagration.The burned-out residents include an aspiring novelist, two people who''d recently been accused of killing a bookie, and Police Chief Cindy LaMond''s sister and nephew, family members Cindy''s closest friends didn''t know existed. Finding who set the fire is compounded when Chris discovers each resident knows one or more people who may''ve had reason to torch the building. And, who''s to say one of the residents didn''t set it.With more suspects than days until Christmas, can Chris and his cadre of quirky friends restore the Christmas spirit to the small barrier island?

Once again, three novels in the award-winning Folly Beach Mystery series by best-selling author Bill Noel are presented in one collection. Enjoy. DISCORDChris Landrum's trip to Nashville to visit his best friend Charles hits a sour note when they learn of the death of the agent who had persuaded Heather, Charles's girlfriend, to move to Music City to seek fame and fortune as a singer. The visit sinks from bad to horrible when instead of finding stardom, Heather, is charged with the agent's murder. Chris must rely on his quick wits to solve the murder before the killer adds him to the growing list of victims.DARK HORSEAn accidental drug overdose is ruled the cause of the death of the daughter of Chris's neighbor, a retired police detective who had accused Chris of murder days after he'd arrived on Folly Beach a decade ago. So, why get involved and question the cause of death? Could it be because the daughter was dating a man on the path to unseating Chris's good friend as mayor of the small barrier-island? The political race heats up, and so does the retired executive's search for proof of a crime-a crime the police are certain never took place.JOY: A Folly Beach Christmas MysteryChris and his friend Barbara Deanelli's search for shark teeth abruptly changes directions when they discover a woman at water's edge clinging to a surfboard. How she got there was a mystery-a mystery compounded when she doesn't remember her name, her past, or who abducted her and nearly sent her to her death in the mid-December waters off the South Carolina